Over 150 guests turned out for the Microsoft-sponsored event, which took place at Bloomingdale’s in Santa Monica, on the same evening President Obama rubbed elbows with approximately the same number of guests at George Clooney’s fundraiser dinner in Culver City.

The show was kicked off by Malissa Feruzzi Shriver, Chair of the California Arts Council (and wife to former Santa Monica mayor and current city councilman Bobby Shriver) and emceed by the audaciously bodacious host of What’s Trending, Shira Lazar.

Bobby, Natasha and Malissa Feruzzi Shriver

Twenty-five entrepreneurs from the digital, media, and social-networking landscape of “Silicon Beach” stole away from their everyday geekery to strut the down the runway in the latest from Marc Jacobs, Theory, and John Varvatos, to name a few. The full model line-up included:

Alan Silberberg, Gov 2.0 LA

Andrew Kirk, CitySourced

Brad Rehak, Big Block Industry

Christopher Prince Boucher, Follow the Prince

David Brody, North Social

Eric Kuhn, United Talent Artists

Evan White, Viddy

Ezra Butler, The Kernel

J.J. Kaye, Use All Five

Joaquin Horton, Fuzzy Stix

Jonathan Eppers, eHarmony

Kevin Arthofer, HUB LA

Latham Arneson, Paramount Pictures

Lucas Bean, Hello Music

Matthew DiGirolamo, Cause Catalysts

Maynard Brown, Crenshaw High School

Mike Colosimo, thrdPlace

Miles Beckett, EQAL

Myles Sutherland, ESRI

Nathan Coyle, AOL

Ryan Scott, CauseCast

Scott Kerfoot, Microsoft

Shahin and Shahrooz Kohan, AIMS360

Steven Mandzik, 1X57

All ticket proceeds, as well as 10 percent of the store’s sales for the evening, benefited NFTE, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a program that works with educators in low-income communities to inspire high-school students to explore entrepreneurship as a viable career path.

Hosts Shira Lazar and Mark Drapeau

Happy Model Mike Colosimo

About Amy Senger:Amy Senger is an L.A. transplant by way of Washington, DC, and co-founder of 1X57, named to Washingtonian’s Tech Titans list with her partner Steven Mandzik. Follow her on twitter @sengseng and follow the Pacific Punch @ThePacificPunch or email amy@1×57.com.